Diadem
['daɪədem] or ['daɪədɛm]
Definition
(n.) Originally, an ornamental head band or fillet, worn by Eastern monarchs as a badge of royalty; hence (later), also, a crown, in general.
(n.) Regal power; sovereignty; empire; -- considered as symbolized by the crown.
(n.) An arch rising from the rim of a crown (rarely also of a coronet), and uniting with others over its center.
(v. t.) To adorn with a diadem; to crown.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Crown.[2]. Empire, sovereignty.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Crown, coronet, coronal, chaplet, wreath, fillet, tiara, circlet
ANT:Liberty-cap, foolscap, daisy-chain
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Definition
n. a band or fillet worn round the head as a badge of royalty: a crown: royalty.—adj. Dī′ademed wearing a diadem.—Diadem spider the common garden spider—from its markings.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a diadem, denotes that some honor will be tendered you for acceptance.
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Examples
- I stand here, it would seem, an elected king; this hand is about to grasp a sceptre; these brows feel in each nerve the coming diadem. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Love had doubled all her excellencies, and placed a diadem on her genius. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He looked down at her with a rich bright brow like a diadem above his eyes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He opened the case, and taking out the diadem he laid it upon the table. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- There can, I think, be no doubt that this battered and shapeless diadem once encircled the brows of the royal Stuarts. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- But all the later emperors after Diocletian wore diadems and magnificent robes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For, instead of a long train with royal diadems, I saw in one family two fiddlers, three spruce courtiers, and an Italian prelate. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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